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The '''Thorians''' are a faction within the Puritan side of the [[Inquisition]]. Generally considered as pro-resurrectionists, the Thorians' philosophy is named after the great hero of the [[Age of Apostasy]], [[Sebastian Thor]], and its members believe that the [[Emperor]]´s spirit can be transferred into another host, referred to as a Divine Avatar, an especially gifted, charismatic and saintly individual. Many other Inquisitors work against this agenda, because if such a thing happened the [[Imperium]] would be torn apart in a massive conflict between believers and non-believers, resulting in a devastation similar to the aftermath of the Horus Heresy.
The Thorian faction of the [[Inquisition]] takes its name from Saint [[Sebastian Thor]], the hero who overthrew Goge Vandire, the tyrannical High Lord of Terra who plunged the Imperium into the Age of Apostasy in the 36th Millennium. The Thorians believe that Thor was divinely inspired and that he moved with the [[Emperor]]’s light burning within him. To many Inquisitors of the day, it was obvious that Thor was imbued with a measure of the [[Emperor]]’s will and charisma. They believed that it was not the first time that the [[Emperor ]] had acted in such a way, citing such figures as St. Capilene and the hero Josmane as previous vessels of the [[Emperor]] walking amongst his people.
The Thorians believe that the [[Emperor]]’s near-death at the hands of [[Horus]] allowed him to break the final bonds between the crude matter of corporeality and ascend to assume his true nature as a deity. His spirit wanders the void, travelling as a whisper in the warp, flitting from place to place and perhaps even through time. Thorian dogma tells that the Emperor has manifested his spirit through his chosen vessels many times when his people needed him, but that these bodies were able to contain only the barest fraction of his power and soon withered and died. They await the day that He shall be reborn and lead his people onwards in the continuation of the Great Crusade.
